According to LeBon, the crowd transforms people, making them highly suggestible, emotional, and irrational. He referrs to this effect as

According to Herbert Blumer, the crowd influenced people primarily through:

Harvey, Wanda, and her cousin Jeffery are waiting at the airport terminal depature gate when they see a group of 15 people begin to dance and play music. They decide to join the festivity. McPhail would likely classify this event as an example of:

In Mintz's study of nonadaptive group behavior, which of the following experimental conditions were most likely to result in jam ups in the neck of the bottle?

Which of the following research methods did Lofland use in his study of the Doomsday Cult?

McPhail and teams of graduate students from the University of South Carolina developed procedures for observing crowds, using paper and-pencil recording techniques. Their first observations were of crowds

Sociologists often cite Charles McKay's description of the seventeenth century "tulip mania" in Holland as an example of mass hysteria. Upon examination, McKay devotes most of this account to:

In the past, three problems have hindered the study of collective behavior. These problems are studying unanticipated events, finding ways to study collective behavior under controlled conditions, and:

Beginning in the late 1960s, Clark McPhail sent teams of graduate students into the field to observe and record people's and initially found that:

Studies by the Disaster Research Center show that people will submit to interviews and fill out questionnaires in disaster situations. The work of Quarantelli and Hundley (1975) shows that people will agree to be interviewed and fill out questionnaires